Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons Crosses 200 Members in More Than 40
Countries

Private and public cloud service providers, along with customers and
partners in the banking, higher education, and government verticals,
collaborate on the OpenShift platform, containers, and orchestration
technologies

May 18, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

RALEIGH, N.C.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that OpenShift Commons has surpassed 200
members across more than 40 countries
and key industries, including private and public cloud service providers
and customers and partners in the banking and finance, higher education,
and public sector. OpenShift Commons is an open source community
spanning multiple projects where customers, partners, and contributors
collaborate and share best practices about adopting container platforms
at scale. The OpenShift Commons community is designed to bridge multiple
upstream projects that are incorporated into OpenShift Origin including
Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Project Atomic and more.

“Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations”

Since its launch
in 2015, OpenShift Commons has emerged as one of the industry’s most
unique and robust communities, combining perspectives around container
application development and deployment from OpenShift partners,
contributors and customers. Recent customers, partners and service
providers that have joined OpenShift Commons include Charter
Communications, Consensys,
Cox
Automotive, Datadog,
Infosys, Skatteetaten (Norwegian Tax Administration), Tata
Consulting Services, the University of Michigan, and VMTurbo.

Unlike other vendor-sponsored software communities, OpenShift Commons is
dedicated to combining input and giving users accessibility to best
practices, operations knowledge, and briefings on special topics. The
OpenShift Commons community focuses on intersection of shared interests
between those participants building cloud native applications and those
deploying OpenShift, the container platform, where these services are
hosted. These cross-community conversations and collaboration play a key
role in driving the container application industry forward.

Additionally, Red Hat is an active participant in the Cloud Native
Computing Foundation and the Open Container Initiative, incorporating
code from the Kubernetes and Prometheus projects into OpenShift to
ensure that the resulting open source container-based clouds are fully
interoperable. The OpenShift
Commons Briefings have also expanded to include new coverage areas
to support OpenShift’s expanded user base and variety of production
environments. New briefings cover topics such as upstream Kubernetes,
building Docker apps, and container security features. The OpenShift
Commons Special Interest Groups also have grown to encompass new
container application platform capabilities featured in OpenShift 3,
specific topics and vertical use cases such as operations, .edu, image
builders and big data.

Supporting Quotes

Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat

“The substantial growth we have seen in OpenShift Commons, driven by
community members, our partners, and customers affirms that innovation
in the container application space can be achieved through a truly open
community model. Red Hat is proud to facilitate an environment where
cross-community collaboration can thrive and members can pursue the
areas of container application development that interest them most.”

Stanislav Polášek, CEO, ELOS Technologies

"As one of the newest members of the OpenShift Commons, ELOS
Technologies is looking forward to accelerating our ability to deploy
OpenShift for our clients and ourselves internally. The information
sharing and collaboration that takes place in the OpenShift Commons has
helped us get up to speed with Kubernetes and containers so that we can
deliver more business value to our customers. We are looking forward to
contributing back to the community in the future."

Marc Boorshtein, CTO, Tremolo Security, Inc.

“For Tremolo Security, OpenShift Commons has helped us build a better
identity management project and product by being able to talk to the
developers and operators to sound out our ideas and avoid the
development ‘echo chamber.’ There are few groups in this industry with
so many members that are a mix of partners and customers working
together.”

Rob Lalonde, vice president, Navops, Univa

“As a solution provider, we find OpenShift Commons to be a great venue
to dialogue and network with peers in the OpenShift community. This
community is where the rubber hits the road with real world use-cases
and technical people with real technical challenges. We look forward to
further participating in this vibrant community as it develops further."

Sebastian Villa, director of Technology, Villamedia

“One of the many advantages of being a member of the OpenShift Commons,
Villamedia participated in the Openshift Dedicated Early Access program
and worked closely with OpenShift 3 before GA, and provided our feedback
to the engineers working on the project. Since then, we've been sharing
this exciting experience and the advantages with our customers,
colleagues and across the OpenShift Commons at large. OpenShift
Dedicated enables our team to build great software to power scalable and
containerized web, mobile and cloud applications, without the
infrastructure and DevOps overhead associated with traditional systems
we once depended on."

“Today's news demonstrates the depth and breadth of the global reach of
the OpenShift Commons. Now encompassing 200+ organizations in more than
60 countries, OpenShift Commons is emerging as a new, effective model
for open source cross-community collaboration. Weaveworks shares Red
Hat’s commitment to collaborating on container and cloud-native
solutions to deliver a stable, more secure and fully open-source cloud.
Weaveworks is pleased to be part of this community and looks forward to
more cloud-native collaboration efforts with Red Hat and the other
members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to accelerate adoption
of container-based microservices architectures.”

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